(Via Steve Huff, via Fark) The VP debate was Rickrolled! Check out the signs in the back. Incidentally, Rick Astley is up for “Best Act Ever” at the MTV Europe Music Awards — twenty years after he was a chart-topper with “Never Gonna Give You Up” and “Together Forever.” (No,…
According to a press release that showed up in my inbox this morning, pop icon Janet Jackson has indefinitely postponed her concert scheduled for tomorrow at the BankAtlantic Center due to ill health. Just a week and a half ago, Jackson postponed three shows in Montreal, Philadelphia, and Boston for…
Logan Fazio Jay-Z came out to support Barack Obama at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami Sunday night. Click here to view the full slideshow. Jay-Z Monday October 6, 2008 Bayfront Park Ampitheatre, Miami Better Than: A McCain-sponsored get-out-the-vote concert. No offense, Daddy Yankee. Jay-Z kicked off last night’s show with…
For those who don’t know, Jay-Z is putting on two free concerts in Miami at Bayfront Park starting tonight (Sunday) at 9 p.m. and tomorrow (Monday) at noon. He’ll be here, alongside Wyclef Jean on behalf of Barack Obama’s campaign trying to help register people to vote before the registration…
Did you cry your poor little eyes out because you waited in line for hours and hours but didn’t score any tickets for Sunday’s Jay-Z concert? Well, rejoice because Hov has added a second show in support of Obama for Monday afternoon at Bayfront Park. Doors will open at 11…
Toxic Holocaust, Kingdom of Sorrow, and GWAR Thursday, October 2, 2008 Revolution, Ft. Lauderdale Better Than: A great many “serious” shows I’ve sat through recently … and I will hazard a guess that it was almost definitely more fun than letting my blood pressure rise by watching the VP debates…
So Miami-based super rapper/pop-star of the year Lil Wayne is now officially a blogger. He’s recently started a weekly blog over at ESPN.com about his opinions on sports and, so far, it’s actually enjoyable. The first post of his was a little dry but it gave a glimpse into how…
Maraca Lo Que Quiero Es Fiesta!!! (Ahi-Nama) On his first collection of new music in four years, Havana-based maestro Orlando “Maraca” Valle returns to the spotlight with a collection of tunes that basically celebrate life and the need to enjoy it to the fullest. As a former alum of Irakere…
Here’s some late-breaking news for jam band lovers…. The O.A.R. show scheduled for tomorrow, Friday October 3, has been moved south from the Mizner Park Amphitheatre in Boca, to the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre. The showtime is 7 p.m., and nothing else has changed — opening acts are still Between the…
If there were a DJ equivalent to the late, great Cuban bandleader Mario Bauza, it would have to be Miami’s DJ Le Spam. Like Bauza, Le Spam is renowned for bringing the sound of Cuba to folks who might never have heard it before. In Bauza’s case, it was in…
It’s well established that veteran progressive house DJ Nick Warren is a nice guy. Known for helping out unknown artists, he released last year Global Underground 30: Paris, a mix featuring mostly up-and-comers. It’s the same deal with Global Underground 35: Lima, which hits stores in two weeks: Nobody you…
As a founding member of the genre dubbed (by the press) “indie rap,” Minneapolis duo Atmosphere has always had a special place in critics’ hearts. But with the release of their latest album, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold, they can claim a piece of the…
Shock rock has seen its fair share of gory characters, but they’re all tame in comparison to Gwar. Known for its wild stage theatrics — which include homages to necrophilia, scatology, bestiality, rape, murder, carnage, and lots of other things that could give Tipper Gore a heart attack — Gwar…
As vallenato grows in popularity via superstar Carlos Vives, other Colombian acts have begun enjoying fame stateside as well. One of the latest is the twosome of singer-songwriter Jorge Celedón and accordionist Jimmy Zambrano, who perform this Friday in support of De Lo Nuevo … Lo Mejor (Norte/BMG), their first…
Comprising three-fifths of mid-Nineties New York sensation Jonathan Fire*Eater, a band that made a career out of trading ostensible Ivy League destiny for starved-artiste squalor, the Walkmen create ant traps for the ears. Theirs is non-doctor-recommended white noise hidden in fragrant, pretty pop trinkets. The group’s current album, You &…
As Paul Revere once warned, “The British [divas] are coming.” Estelle, a 28-year-old West Londoner, joins a burgeoning trans-Atlantic hit-parade cabal (Amy Winehouse, Leona Lewis), this one balancing expertly on the rapping-singing switchblade. Discovered by John Legend and crowned as the flagship artist on his fledgling Home School Records, Estelle…
The case of Charlie Pickett is one of rock and roll’s classic stories of almost-was. The Dania homeboy spent much of the Eighties working the road from here to the heartland, produced three highly acclaimed albums and an EP, and garnered a rabid local following in the process. But it…
One afternoon in July 1958, Brazilian guitarist and singer João Gilberto entered a studio and quickly recorded “Chega de Saudade,” an early composition by Vinicius de Moraes and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Soon afterward, it was released as a single by Brazilian label Odeon (EMI’s subsidiary), with the blessings of Jobim…
It’s great to hear guitarist Kirk Hammett soloing again, and Lars Ulrich pounding a kit that sounds like drums instead of trash-can lids. And hey, James Hetfield’s voice has ceased to crack (he’s still no crooner, of course). Not to mention those riffs! The 10 long songs that make up…
Since no idea is original, it’s all in the way you freak it. Late last year, Boyz II Men released a respectable Motown-remake album with a lousy title that could’ve been worse only if they’d added an exclamation point to it (Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA). But Raphael Saadiq…
Is Richard Ashcroft talking about his bandmates when he sings “sometimes life seems to tear us apart/I don’t wanna let you go” on The Verve’s latest album? The band did break up prematurely in 1999 and finally reunited last year. Whatever the case, if The Verve ever suffered from any…
On Love to Make Music To, Daedelus’s point of departure is the early Nineties — specifically rave culture’s big awakening and the last of hip-hop’s golden age. The dandified Los Angeles DJ establishes the album’s breakbeat fixation with opener “Fair Weather Friends,” a funky anthem Nike could’ve used to sell…
